hound

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English honde, from Old English hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz (confer West Frisian hûn, Dutch hond, Luxembourgish Hond, German Hund, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian hund), from pre-Germanic *ḱuntós (compare Latvian sùnt-ene (“big dog”)), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ (“dog”) (compare Welsh cwn (“dogs”), Tocharian AB ku, Lithuanian šuõ, Portuguese cão, Armenian շուն (šun)).

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /haʊnd/
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Rhymes: -aʊnd

NounEdit

hound (plural hounds)

A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals. (hunt hound, hunting hound, hunting dog, hunter)
(by extension) Someone who seeks something.
- 1996, Marc Parent, Turning Stones, Harcourt Brace & Company, ISBN 0151002045, page 93,
  On the way out of the building I was asked for my autograph. If I'd known who the signature hound thought I was, I would've signed appropriately.
- 2004, Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0743486196, page 483,
  I still do not know if he's taken on this case because he's a glory hound, because he wants the PR, or if he simply wanted to help Anna.
(by extension) A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.
- 1915, Norman Duncan, "A Certain Recipient", in Harper's, volume 122, number 787, December 1915, republished in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 122, December 1915 to May 1916, page 108,
  "Are you alone, Goodson? […] I thought, perhaps, that the […] young woman, Goodson, who supplanted Mary?" […]
  
  "She had a good many successors, John."
  
  "You are such a hound, in that respect, Goodson," said Claywell, "and you have always been such a hound, that it astounds me to find you—unaccompanied."
A despicable person.
- Shakespeare
  Boy! false hound!
- Elizabeth Walter, Come and Get Me
  'You blackmailing hound,' the parrot said distinctly, in what Hodges recognized as General Derby's voice. Anstruther turned pale.
A houndfish.
(nautical, in the plural) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on.
A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.

Usage notesEdit

In more recent times, hound has been replaced by dog but the sense remains the same.

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from hound

TranslationsEdit

dog

Afrikaans: hond (af)
Armenian: բարակ (hy) (barak)
Middle Armenian: զաղառ (załaṙ)
Bulgarian: хрътка (bg) f (xrâtka)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 獵犬 (zh), 猎犬 (zh) (lièquǎn)
Czech: chrt (cs) m
Danish: hund (da) c
Dutch: jachthond (nl) m
Esperanto: hundo (eo)
Estonian: hunt (et)
Faroese: hundur (fo)
Finnish: ajokoira (fi)
French: chien de chasse (fr) m, braque (fr) m, molosse (fr), chien courant (fr) m
Galician: can de caza (gl) m
Georgian: ძაღლი (ka) (ʒaɣli), მონადირე ძაღლი (monadire ʒaɣli), ქოფაკი (kopaḳi)
German: Jagdhund (de) m
Greek: κυνηγόσκυλο (el) n (kynigóskylo), λαγωνικό (el) n (lagonikó)
Hungarian: vadászkutya (hu)
Icelandic: hundur (is)
Ido: chasohundo (io)

Irish: cú (ga) m
Old Irish: cú m
Italian: bracco (it) m
Japanese: 猟犬 (りょうけん, ryōken), 狩犬 (かりいぬ, kariinu)
Macedonian: ’рт m ('rt), загар m (zágar)
Malay:
Jawi: انجيڠ ڤمبورو‎

Rumi: anjing pemburu
Norwegian: hund (no) c
Polish: gończy m, ogar (pl) m
Portuguese: cão de caça m
Primitive Irish: ᚉᚒᚅᚐ m (cuna)
Russian: го́нчая (ru) f (gónčaja) (соба́ка), охо́тничья соба́ка f (oxótničʹja sobáka)
Slovak: chrt (sk) m
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} perro de caza m, ^{(please verify)} sabueso m
Swedish: hund (sv) c
Tagalog: asong pangaso
Turkmen: tazy
West Frisian: hûn (fy)
Yiddish: הונט‎ (yi) m (hunt)